SURVEY: 81% Google Or Facebook First Dates
More than four out of every five people in their 20s either Google a person or check out the individuals's Facebook profile before a first date.
More than four out of every five people in their 20s either Google a person or check out the individuals’s Facebook profile before a first date.
That comes from San Francisco radio station Alice @97.3, which doesn’t clarify whether it conducted the survey or another entity did. Also missing: How many people participated in the poll.
Regardless of how scientifically precise this survey might have been, it still provides some helpful insights. Like the fact that 47 percent of survey respondents have changed their Facebook profiles to make themselves seem more “mysterious” to a prospective date.
I’d love to know the gender split for that answer, but suspect more women than men try to make themselves look mysterious because it jibes with the straight-chick dating advice book The Rules.
Meanwhile,
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